I’m still feeling the glow from the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market 30th Anniversary celebrations. Thank you Suzanne Goin, Roxana Jullapat, Erika Nakamura, Amelia Posada, Mike Cirone, Jerry Rutiz, and Marcie Jimenez! Our day of cooking demonstrations at the market so perfectly expressed what a good market offers: amazing fruits, vegetables, and meats—the “whole plate”—and the tools to help shoppers put all those ingredients to use.

The miraculous recovery and restoration of the Iraqi Jewish Archives. Why on earth was Saddam hiding old Passover haggadot and Hanukkah songbills in Baghdad? Here's the amazing story and the extraordinary exhibit itself that reveals the social and personal history of a once-thriving community.